Word: al
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...caused bookmakers to revise their odds against the Tories from 2-1 to 6-4, moved Laborites to grumble about the effect of England's halcyon summer upon public sentiment. Labor took some comfort from the fact that the latest Gallup poll still found the Tories 6% behind, al though admittedly coming up, as the race entered the last stretch...
...Yankees a bare two games behind-has the American League had a pennant race to compare. In five months the lead has changed hands as often as an Indianhead penny. Yogi Berra's Yankees, crippled as they were by injuries, have been in first place seven times; Al Lopez' White Sox, the punchless wonders, have visited there on eleven separate occasions; and Hank Bauer's Baltimore Orioles have tried twelve times to build themselves a permanent nest on the slippery topmost branch. With just 27 games to play, it is still anybody's race...
...Madison Avenue sees it, the main campaign of Election Year 1964 will pit Doyle Dane Bernbach against Erwin Wasey, Ruthrauff & Ryan, Doyle Dane, the imaginative agency celebrated for its Volkswagen and El Al ads, has landed the prized account to merchandise Lyndon Johnson to the U.S. public; Erwin Wasey, whose accounts stretch from Gulf Oil to Olga Girdles, has edged out Leo Burnett, Inc. and several other eager contenders to win Barry Goldwater's business. Beyond those two, hundreds of agencies this year have gone into politics for pay - and just about every major candidate has engaged some advertising...
...like a movie warden with a heart of gold. He speaks of his 22,000 charges as "individuals with hearts, lungs and emotions like everyone else." He frets that "our criminal laws are the most severe in the world." Yet in his 27 years of guarding the likes of Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelley, Bennett has been as hard as he has been soft. Of 700,000 federal prisoners during his tenure, only six have flown the coop and never been recovered...
...eloquently understated, supremely lucid style. As to the familiar gibe about his Joan of Arc complex, le grand Charles has never believed that he or his beloved France had any special claim to divine protection. True, he was superbly, even illogically confident. But above all else, De Gaulle has al ways been a realist. In his serene, eminently aristocratic view of human affairs, man is an infinitely corruptible, infrequently brilliant creature. It was the task of Charles de Gaulle, as he saw it, to make the children of darkness see the light. But in the years of France...